Many thanks to the CO of USS CHINOOK (PC-9) for commissioning the drawing of his vessel for his crew.
(Prints were ordered; I just made the greeting card up for this post.)

And much thanks to Sarah Schwartz, editor of Stationery Trends for using Bowsprite cards to illustrate her very good article on the trends in the industry:

Very interesting information, beautifully designed with clever charts depicting the results of survey responses from 299 greeting card suppliers, manufacturers and retailers.

If you go to the National Stationery Show and look out the west exits, you’ll see the Fleet go by! who could ask for anything more? Sarah Schwartz is speaking at 2pm: see you there! going with my dear friend, AnjaKroencke, click to see her gorgeous work.

Oh, secrets oft the American Navy unlocked on this blog. At least to me it is new, that the Armed Forces experiment with inflatable dreadnoughts. So what, leaving aside some shipbuilders (and wreck divers), everyone will be happy about the military developing creativity in search of savings potentials. “Small is beautiful” is one of the great insights of the 70s.